confessedly
Americanadverb
adverb
Etymology
Origin of confessedly
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Even though I’m confessedly anti-multi, I imagine I would have been delightedly thrown for a loop in the moment, seeing those worlds collide.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2021
I listened to the audio edition read by the author, whose British accent and breathless, revelatory storytelling style are confessedly compelling.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 12, 2017
At times these confessedly selfish and self-involved folks seem to be working up material for a self-help book called “He’s Just Not That Into Thee.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2010
Would it weaken any army to remove those who are confessedly guilty of weakening the faith of the army in itself?
From Time Magazine Archive
It is to be observed that the assumptions made above that the physical constants of the material are constant throughout the earth, and at all temperatures, are confessedly far from the truth.
From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Andrew Gray
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
